Bomb was designed to explode on US-bound plane: British PM

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British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Saturday that the device in a package sent from Yemen and found on a US-bound cargo plane was "designed to go off on the airplane".

Cameron told reporters at his country residence, Chequers, that it was believed the explosive device intercepted at East Midlands Airport was "designed to go off on the aeroplane. We cannot be sure about when that was supposed to take place".

"There is no early evidence that it was meant to take place over British soil, but of course we cannot rule it out," he was quoted as saying by BBC.

The prime minister said the authorities had immediately banned packages coming to or through the UK from Yemen, and would be "looking extremely carefully at any further steps we have to take".

In Yemen, police have arrested a woman suspected of posting the packages.

Photo -- File photo of the British Prime Minister David Cameron speaking during an annual conference in London.

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